Midhurst / Medhas
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view of font and cover - west side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover - north side
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 March 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1746633] [accessed 31 August 2012]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2016 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 25 August 2016)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06534MID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Denis [aka Denys]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the N arch of the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene & St. Denis
Church Notes: Harrison (1920): "This church was formerly a chapel of the priory of Easeboume."
Church Address: 4 Church Hill, Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 9NJ
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 20 km N of Chichester up the A286. The church is on the E side of Church Hill
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Easebourne -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Midhurst in the Domesday survey. Reported in Harrison (1920) as a square baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994): "Beneath the N arch is the octagonal font, probably Early English, on a pedestal of similar shape, both carved with uncusped arches". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "The chancel appears to have been enlarged in the 15th or 16th century, the ground stage of the tower is of the early 13th, its upper stages and the aisles east and west of it the 16th, the vestibule is modern, as is, apparently, the whole of the north aisle [...] The font, under the north arch of the tower, is octagonal on an octagonal stem; both have sunk panels with uncusped pointed heads, perhaps 13th-century; a wooden cover is of the 17th." The wooden cover is of the common Jacobean style: a flat platform with eight (?) vertical scroll ribs meeting up at a knob finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 658825 5650714
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.986074, -0.737118
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 59′ 9.86″ N, 0° 44′ 13.63″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century? / Jacobean?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 152-153
- Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998, p. 106